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Mel G (spooky) @a4rdvark.bsky.social · 6h

Booked. Amazing to see a situation where ADHD isn't costing me extra money.

Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 9d

Albertans: if you're looking for a COVID vaccine, remember to check the list of medical conditions that qualify you for Phase I (it's more inclusive than I'd have guessed). You can book the appointments through MyAHSConnect.

Eligible underlying medical conditions
cerebrovascular disease
chronic liver diseases
chronic lung diseases
chronic kidney diseases
cystic fibrosis
diabetes mellitus, type 1 and type 2
disabilities (for example, Down syndrome, learning, intellectual, or developmental disabilities; ADHD; cerebral palsy; congenital disabilities; spinal cord injuries)
heart conditions (for example, cardiomyopathies, coronary artery disease, heart failure, etc.)
mental health disorders (limited to: mood disorders, including depression; schizophrenia, spectrum disorders)
obesity
pregnancy
tuberculosis
Eligible immunocompromising conditions
cancer (currently receiving treatment)
HIV infection
primary immunodeficiency diseases
solid organ or blood stem cell transplant
use of corticosteroids, other immunosuppressive medication or CAR T-cell therapy

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 10h

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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Mel G (spooky) @a4rdvark.bsky.social · 11h

I have a borscht problem. Unlike other soup/stews I make, it never tastes as good later?

While I'm making borscht I'm testing and adjusting. When done I feel like a soup genius who has totally nailed it this time.

And then I have some for lunch the next day and it's like: meh.

Mel G (spooky) @a4rdvark.bsky.social · 15h

I voted in my municipal election for candidates that believe:

- Trans rights are human rights,
- Houseless people deserve shelter and support, and
- Kids should be able to walk or bike to school without getting run over.

I encourage others to do the same!

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Mel G (spooky) @a4rdvark.bsky.social · 1d

I like wearing clothes and even have knowledge about particular things about clothes I like and dont like... but I dont have much ability to make them.

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Stephen Uitti he/him/it/they/hey-you @suitti.bsky.social · 3d

Flashback. (pretty sure i'm reposting).

6 panel cartoon.

1. Data - bunch of random dots - scatter plot
2. Information - same dots, but some are colored green , some purple
3. Knowledge - same dots, but connected by lines that seem to mean something.
4. Insight - The Knowledge dots, but two are highlighted in yellow
5. Wisdom - The Insight dots, but the two yellow ones are connected through the knowledge lines highlighted in yellow.
6. Conspiracy Theory - Original dots connected by magenta marker to form a unicorn with wings.

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Mel G (spooky) @a4rdvark.bsky.social · 2d

I love my CAT and I cannot lie.
She's a fluffy lil cutie pie.
When I dangle a string she always gives chase.
The I kiss her on her face.
She bleps her TONGUE...

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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 2d

As today is World Octopus Day I’ll again mention that a Spanish equivalent to “like a fish out of water” is como un pulpo en un garaje. It means “like an octopus in a garage.”

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Mel G (spooky) @a4rdvark.bsky.social · 3d

Sorry various journalists and other folk people doing their best to speak truth to power, but I need to do some unfollowing if I'm going to be on these platforms at all. I don't know how much more cortisol I can handle.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 3d

Flying cars are the perfect example of a point solution: trying to solve a systemic problem (traffic) with an individual product (fly over the traffic).

But traffic is not a technology problem; it's a social problem. Remote work, congestion fees, and dense transit-connected housing solve it better.

ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 3d

which then begs the question of why you want flying cars instead of whatever mass transportation equivalent you imagine

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Mel G (spooky) @a4rdvark.bsky.social · 3d

Accepting recommendations for scifi novels about dismantling the torment nexus

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Mel G (spooky) @a4rdvark.bsky.social · 3d

a frog is laying on a lily pad in the water and its reflection is in the water .

Alt: A frog laying on it's back on a lily pad. It's reflection ripples gently in still water. A caption below reads "same here."

media.tenor.com

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Jacques O'Lantern @ass.golf · 5d

Starting to think that pareidolia monkeys making a pareidolia machine was maybe not a great idea

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Mel G (spooky) @a4rdvark.bsky.social · 5d

Can't speak for anyone else, but I feel seen by this piece. It's a relief to see things I have struggled with reflected and be able to have a chuckle at them.

I also have a friend with ocd I plan to share this with later.

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Eowm of Meow @mjaum.bsky.social · 5d

This article is interesting too:
softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llme...

The LLMentalist Effect: how chat-based Large Language Models rep…

The new era of tech seems to be built on superstitious behaviour

softwarecrisis.dev

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Mel G (spooky) @a4rdvark.bsky.social · 7d

Haha oh no, that sounds mortifying. Thank goodness for people having a sense of humour

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Mel G (spooky) @a4rdvark.bsky.social · 7d

Noooooo. Hopefully it didn't read like a mic drop

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Tommy Siegel @tommysiegel.bsky.social · 8d

(I submitted the whole pamphlet to the New Yorker too, but I think it was all a little too specific lol)

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Blue sky nice guy @rajandelman.bsky.social · 11d

The bees have discovered Brutalism

Cube Enthusiast @killhamster.bsky.social · 13d

Nature is healing

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Alanna Smith @alannamode.bsky.social · 11d

Give folks their flowers

No, I mean right now. Go tell someone you loved their work right now. They're on social media just say it, it has never been easier

"They know how much people love--" no they don't go say it right now to a composer or artist or game dev or writer or anyone AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH

Murlin @murlin.bsky.social · 11d

From bravewave.net/interviews/t...

Mo: Do you remember the first time you met someone who said they loved your work on Mega Man 2?

Tateishi: You’re the first, in 2013. No one else has.

Mo: Wow. I’m surprised. I don’t even have a follow-up question… how could no one come up and say something.

Tateishi: …

Mo: Now that you know how big Mega Man 2 is outside of Japan, do you look fondly back at the soundtrack?

Tateishi: Yeah, my thoughts have changed since I met you and became more aware of how people felt. But even when I was at Konami, I didn’t even bother telling anyone I did Mega Man 2. So the fact you came all the way to Japan to tell me these things makes me very happy I worked on the game all those years ago.

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Mel G (spooky) @a4rdvark.bsky.social · 12d

Why do some tasks have to take longer than I feel like doing them for.

This is clearly a design oversight and I will be submitting a support ticket forthwith.

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Mel G (spooky) @a4rdvark.bsky.social · 12d

ugh right? It sucks so bad.

but you've already proven a jillion times over that you're brave

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Standplaats Kraków @standplaatskrk.pl · Nov 5

An engraving of a raccoon looking in the mirror: "I am beautiful."

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Mel G (spooky) @a4rdvark.bsky.social · 14d

Miss Kitty was a fabulous and buxom part of my childhood but I still cant understand why she has red hair. It seems so weirdly tacked on to her character design.

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 14d

Morning walk

Wheat paste poster that says the all the world is dying and the new world struggles to be born now is the time of monsters. There's a picture of Elmo

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